Expert warns against disturbingly popular yard trend spreading across neighborhoods: ‘An epidemic in landscaping'

Expert warns against disturbingly popular yard trend spreading across neighborhoods: ‘An epidemic in landscaping'

The University of Maryland Extension Home and Garden Information Center posted a helpful video about the harm mulch volcanoes cause to trees.  In the YouTube video, an expert from the center said that mulch volcanoes have become "an epidemic in landscaping" and cause harm to the health of trees over time.  The expert explained that a mulch volcano is a big mound of mulch that has been piled around the base of a tree. Piling mulch this high and t…